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[Media Watch] No freedom for the media in Venezuela?

Created: 01 February 2007
Much of the media internationally repeat the lies and half truths about the alleged "lack of freedom of the media" in Venezuela. Today's editorial and front page of the opposition newspaper TalCual, comparing Hugo Chavez with Hitler, would have gotten the editor on trial in most Western democratic countries. In Venezuela it is allowed to publish freely. Have a look.

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Signatures for the nationalisation of Sanitarios Maracay - update

Created: 18 February 2007

Here are the latest signatures to Hands Off Venezuela's petition campaignfor the nationalisation of Sanitarios Maracay. Up till now, we have received more than 750 signatures coming from 41 differentcountries. Please keep the signatures coming and sign here!

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Venezuelan trade union leader enthuses Belgian solidarity movement

Created: 30 January 2007
With a slight delay we have received this report of the visit of Ruben Linares to Belgium. He met with workers on picket lines, at trade union branch meetings, youth and others. Wherever he went he was warmly welcomed with workers showing a keen interest and support for the struggles of the Venezuelan workers.

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Video: Venezuela Sanitarios Maracay Workers' Assembly

Created: 25 January 2007
After the first video on the struggle at Sanitarios Maracay, a factory in Venezuela under workers' control, Hands Off Venezuela has produced a second video showing how the workers are holding a workers' assembly and how they discuss and vote on issues such as nationalisation. Topics covered include the previous boss's acts of sabotage, logistics of workers' control and socialism of the 21st century.

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President Chávez: Nationalise Sanitarios Maracay!

Created: 19 January 2007
We welcome the recent decisions of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to ask for an Enabling Law that will allow for the renationalisation of all privatised companies. This represents a reversal of the economic policies followed by most governments around the world.

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[Media Watch] Reply to Peter Preston of The Observer

Created: 19 January 2007
On January 7, a dreadful article on Venezuela appeared in The Observer, titled Mr Chavez and the death of freedom, by Peter Preston. Here we publish some replies from HoV members debunking the lies expressed in the article.

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There can be no democracy while the media remain in capitalist hands

Created: 19 January 2007
Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez in Argentina raises the issue of creating a socialist, a people’s media network at the service of the working class to counter the lies and distortions of the bourgeois media in Venezuela and internationally.

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Released Telesur reporter fears for his life

Created: 11 January 2007
Despite being freed for lack of evidence against him over the apparent crimes of rebellion and terrorism, Freddy Muñoz, a correspondent for multinational TV channel Telesur in Colombia, fears for his life.

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Chavez announces radical measures against capitalism in Venezuela

Created: 11 January 2007
At the swearing in of his new government, Hugo Chavez announced radical new measures, including an enabling law that would allow for the nationalisation of key sectors of the economy.

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